Monday, October 16, 2006
MEDIA TIME
I noticed on Sunday that AM interviewed Nigel Farage new boss of UKIP in a blink & you'll miss it interview & then spent about 1o minutes on Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European commission (& not a word about his carer as a Time Lord) in which, among other things, he made his statement about it no longer being whether we are for or against Europe (he ment the EU).
Typical of the BBC that they give so much more time to this EU apparatchik than to the leader of the party that placed 3rd in the last UK election where the voters knew their votes would count (ie PR one).
Last EU election resultConservative 26.7
Labour 22.6
UK Independence Party 16.1
Liberal Democrat 14.9
Green 6.3
I got an email from UKIP a few days previously boasting that AM had interviewed the leaders of all the big parties & were now treating UKIP as the 4th of the big 3 but the interview was disgracefully short.
Typical of the BBC that they give so much more time to this EU apparatchik than to the leader of the party that placed 3rd in the last UK election where the voters knew their votes would count (ie PR one).
Last EU election resultConservative 26.7
Labour 22.6
UK Independence Party 16.1
Liberal Democrat 14.9
Green 6.3
I got an email from UKIP a few days previously boasting that AM had interviewed the leaders of all the big parties & were now treating UKIP as the 4th of the big 3 but the interview was disgracefully short.
